Dide Lubben

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East Frisia at the time of the chiefs .

Dide Lubben (attested 1384 ; † after 1414 ) was an East Frisian chief in the Stadland .

Life

As a chief in the Stadland

Dide was the son of Lubbe Onneken , who lived in the parish of Rodenkirchen, and his wife Suster, who was probably from Butjadingen . He appeared politically in 1384 together with his father when he joined an alliance of the city of Bremen , Count Konrad II of Oldenburg, Chief Edo Wiemken the Elder and other Hayo Husseken , who ruled against Esenshamm . The family will have had more important property and a local reputation by then. After the victory over Husseken, Dide, who must have been of age at this time, and his father were appointed by the city of Bremen as chiefs of Rodenkirchen in July 1384.

As an ally of Bremen

In May 1400 vowed Dide among many other chiefs of the eastern Friesland as "Dido Lubbensone, hovetlink to Rodenkerken" in Emden the Hanse , the Vitalienbrüder or other pirates not to support. Lubbe Onneken was probably dead by then. In the years 1400/1401 Dide again supported Bremen, which, with the support of the Count of Oldenburg and parts of the Bremen nobility, undertook a campaign with 6000 men in the state of Butjadingen in order to put a stop to the attacks on Bremen and other merchant ships that were regularly initiated from there . During this undertaking, the people of Bremen built a ship bridge made of 20 juxtaposed eks over the Heete , an estuary of the Weser that formed the border between the Stadland and Butjadingen. The campaign ended with a victory for Bremen and their allies, as a result of which the Butjadinger chiefs had to vow to protect the merchants in their area in the future and to pay compensation for every raid made from their territory. In August 1404, Dide agreed to the city of Bremen's plan to build a castle on the Heete to further protect shipping on the Lower Weser. In the certificate issued above, he calls himself “hovetlingh in deme Stade” - a self-designation that reveals his supremacy in the Stadland, which has been built up since 1400 and which is closely related to Bremen. The Friedeburg was actually built in 1407 and occupied with a crew. Bremen viewed Dide as her bailiff to whom she “ordered” the land and the exercise of public authority.

The construction of the castle, however, called on the Oldenburg counts, who wanted to break the power of Bremen on the Lower Weser. Together with Edo Wiemken and Butjadinger farmers, Count Christian VI from Oldenburg attacked . the ally of the Bremer Dide in 1408 in the Stadland and pushed him back to Golzwarden . Bremen came to his aid with monastery knights and the allied Count Otto IV of Delmenhorst and Otto von Hoya . Christian VI. was captured and imprisoned in the Friedeburg .

As an opponent of Bremen

As a result, Dide increasingly sought an independent, dynastic rule over the Stadland and accordingly came into conflict with the Bremen people. From the perspective of Bremen, he had sworn to his children that he wanted the Friedeburg "tonichte maken". A testimony to the dynastic perspective of his ambition to rule. By 1412 at the latest, the Bremen council had been preparing Dides' expulsion from the Stadland. In addition to Count Otto III. von Hoya even the former opponents, whom Counts von Oldenburg and Edo Wiemken secured as allies, shows how high the resilience of the Stadländer chief was assessed. The open battle in the spring of 1414 focused on the fortnightly successful siege of the fortified churches of Golzwarden and Esenshamm. The city of Bremen pulled the conquered Stadland under its immediate state rule. Dide and his sons Gerold and Onneke had to leave the country. It is unclear where the evicted chief turned. He was probably already dead when his sons Gerold and Dude, who had been allowed to stay in the Stadland, tried in vain to conquer Friedeburg in a coup in 1418. They were executed in Bremen in 1419.

More offspring

Dide's daughter Ivese married Hayo Harlda (attested 1420; † 1441), chief of Jever . The son Tanno Duren from this marriage (attested in 1442; † 1468) was also chief of Jever.

The Tantzen and Lübben siblings, which are still flourishing today, can be traced back to Dide Lubben in the male line. Lubbe Onneken, Dide's father, handed down the heraldic lion in the shield, which was raised to the right and accompanied the Lübben and Tantzen siblings as a coat of arms. Both families can be traced back to the "noble Duden", grandfather of Dide Lubben. The upright lion indicates an old Frisian family and is a sign of other leading families emerging from the Onneken family, including Lubbe Onneken von Langwarden (later chief of Knyphausen).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann G. Visbeck: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg . 1798, p. 66. Facsimile of the book on Google Books
  2. ↑ Thomas Hill: The city and its market: Bremen's surrounding and external relations in the Middle Ages (12th-15th centuries). Franz Steiner Publishing House. 2004. page 301.
  3. ^ Biography of Tanno Duren in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ^ Tantzen, Eilert: 700 years chronicle of the Tantzen family. 1300 - 2000. Published by the Hergen Tantzen family association. Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, 101 ff.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Dide Lubben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dido Lubbensone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian chief of the Stadland
DATE OF BIRTH before 1384
DATE OF DEATH after 1414